Notable People from Hawaii

Moe Keale

Hawaiian actor and musician (1939-2002)

Joseph Kekuku

Player of the Hawaiian steel guitar

Wynee

first Native Hawaiian from the Hawaiian Islands to traveled abroad

Toshio Miyamoto

American baseball player (1933-)

Ronald Takaki

American historian (1939-2009)

MaKee K. Blaisdell

American actor (1931-1988)

Joe Francis

American gridiron football player (1936-2013)

Henry de Varigny

French physician, naturalist and journalist

Jason Slater

American record producer (1971–2020)

Aukai Collins

American Islamist (1974-2016)

Neal Blaisdell

Mayor of Honolulu from 1955 to 1969 and member of the Hawaii Republican Party

Arthur Lyman

American jazz vibraphone and marimba player group popularized a faux-Polynesian musical style that became known as exotica (1932-2002)

Frank Ferera

Hawaiian musician (1885–1951)

Namahana Piia

Hawaiian royal consort

Kaʻiana

kamaliʻikane (Prince) of Puna, Kaʻū and the island of Kauaʻi

Keōua Kūʻahuʻula

member of the royal class during the unification of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi

Winfield W. Scott, Jr.

United States general

Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa

Hawaiian princess (1882–1945)

William Paul Jarrett

American sheriff and politician (1877-1929)

Tojo Yamamoto

American professional wrestler (1927-1992)

Jeremiah Green

American drummer (1977–2022)

Boki

Hawaiian high chief and merchant

David Malo

Hawaiian historian

George Naʻope

Hula master and Merrie Monarch Festival organizer (1928-2009)

Teresia Teaiwa

Kiribati poet (1968–2017)

Gabe Baltazar

American musician (1929–2022)

Henry A. P. Carter

American businessman, politician, and diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Hilo Hattie

Native Hawaiian singer, hula dancer, actress and comedian (1901-1979)

Pedro Velasco

Olympic volleyball player (1937–2023)

James Kealoha

American politician (1908–1983)

Shinyei Nakamine

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1920-1944)

Garret T. Sato

American actor (1964-2020)

Richard E. Cunha

American cinematographer (1922-2005)

Kanealai

politician

Juliette May Fraser

Hawaiian American artist (1887–1983)

Kwan Hi Lim

American actor (1922-2008)

Dick Cleveland

American swimmer, Pan American Games gold medalist, former world record-holder

Anthony K. Roberts

American photographer

Curtis P. Iaukea

Hawaiian and American politician (1855–1940)

Keohokālole

Hawaiian chiefess

George Parsons Lathrop

American novelist and poet

Henry Alexander Baldwin

American politician (1871-1946)

Kuini Liliha

Traditional Hawaiian High Chiefess who served as royal governor of Oʻahu from 1829 to 1831

Arthur Webster Emerson

American painter (1885-1968)

George W. Macfarlane

British businessman, courtier and politician

Al Kikume

actor, stuntman (1894-1972)

Robert Hoapili Baker

American politician

Mary Foster

American philanthropist

Prince Oana

American baseball player (1908–1976)

Naukane

Native Hawaiian chief who traveled through North America in the early 19th century